Frequently asked questions from green coffee buyers

Through the form on the Contact page. Tell us your company, country, estimated volume and interest; the commercial team replies with harvest availability, lot profile and next steps. The more buying context you give, the sharper the answer — requests with no volume or market take longer to become a real conversation.

Sample cost and freight are confirmed in the reply to your form, before anything ships. Destination, intended volume and timing vary widely between a domestic roaster and an importer, so Vertente prefers to settle that point in conversation rather than publish a rule that would fit no one.

The size follows the evaluation you plan to run. A cupping table needs far less coffee than a roast curve trial or a production line validation. Say which evaluation you have in mind and the team sizes the sample so it can actually answer your technical question.

Yes. The sheet gathers variety, process, altitude, harvest and sensory profile of the lot being sent, so the sample arrives with context rather than as an unlabelled bag. Ask for the full spec sheet in the message field of the form, and name your destination market.

Volume is set lot by lot, in the commercial conversation. Vertente is a single 3,000-hectare farm with 22 center pivots in Cabeceiras de Goiás, so there is room for smaller specialty lots as well as recurring volumes. Give an estimated volume in the form to get a concrete answer for the current harvest.

Vertente sells green coffee to roasters, importers and B2B buyers. This site is institutional: there is no shop and no checkout, and every negotiation runs through commercial contact. Roasting stays with the buyer, who decides profile, curve and brand from the green coffee delivered.

Yes, within what each harvest delivers. Topázio, Catuaí 144 and Catuaí 62 are followed from the nursery and processed by the same natural method, dried on the patio — which supports consistency across lots. Confirmation always comes from the sample of the lot in question, never from a catalogue promise.

Yes, and it is the arrangement Vertente is most interested in. A recurring agreement lets annual volume, shipping windows and expected profile be aligned in advance, which lowers risk on both sides. Bring your intended annual volume and your operating calendar to the first contact.

Harvest follows the Goiás Cerrado calendar and is concentrated in the dry mid-year period. Availability of each lot is confirmed after patio drying and milling, so the best route is to check the current harvest through the form, telling us when you need the coffee in hand.

The farm grows Topázio, Catuaí 144 and Catuaí 62, arabicas cultivated on irrigated Cerrado at around 750 metres. The process is natural, dried on the patio, and the profile points to chocolate, caramel and creaminess: a sweet cup with velvety body and a long finish.

In natural processing the whole cherry dries with its pulp before milling, which tends to build more sweetness and body than a washed lot. At Vertente drying happens on the patio under daily supervision, because that stage is what separates a clean natural from a defective one.

Vertente follows the lot from field to patio and cups it before releasing a sample. Even so, the final word is yours: the coffee is sent to be evaluated under your own protocol, on your own table, with the criteria your roastery already uses.

The coffee leaves Fazenda Vertente in Cabeceiras de Goiás (GO), about 130 km from Brasília, at the source of the Urucuia River. Route, carrier and delivery point are defined with the buyer in the commercial conversation, according to destination, volume and timing — the family keeps its commercial base in Brasília.

Packing format is agreed according to destination and transit time, because a lot moving to a neighbouring state and a lot crossing the Atlantic do not ask for the same protection. Say in the form how you intend to receive the coffee and the team confirms what is possible for the current harvest.

Yes. Vertente works with roasters and importers in Brazil and abroad, which is why this site is published in Portuguese and English. Name your destination country in the form: it changes documentation, logistics and lead times, and it is the single detail that most speeds up the reply.

Yes. Visits to Fazenda Vertente and meetings with the Miari family can be arranged through the contact form. For buyers evaluating single origin, seeing the pivot, the drying patio and the Urucuia headwaters usually settles in one afternoon what a deck cannot.

The operation is Guaxupé Planet certified and C.A.F.E. Practices verified, and is under review for Rainforest Alliance. These are credentials international buyers recognise, and they work as the starting point for the origin due diligence your company needs to run.

Vertente works with single, traceable origin: one grower, one farm, identified plots, from planting to shipment. Available documentation — lot origin, field management and lab reports — is sent according to what your market requires. Ask through the form, naming the destination country and the end buyer.

The shipping structure is designed case by case, with the buyer or with the importer they nominate, covering incoterm, customs clearance and documentation. No single package is published here because every market imposes its own requirements; name the destination and the reply comes back with the right arrangement.

Yes. Technical reports and environmental management documentation are gathered on The Farm page, available to consult and download. If your buying process requires a document that is not published there, ask through the form and name the standard or audit you need to satisfy.